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August 21, 2026

Browser Content Redirection on Horizon Linux Agent

The Browser Content Redirection feature is installed by default with the Horizon Linux Agent.
With Horizon Agent 2412, only the Chrome browser is supported.

Steps to Deploy Browser Content Redirection on Linux Agent

  1. Ensure the Horizon Linux Agent is installed on the Linux virtual machine. If needed, follow the steps in Install Horizon Agent on a Linux Machine.
  2. Download and install Google Chrome on the agent system.
  3. Install the Horizon Browser Content Redirection Extension.
    Access the Chrome Web Store and install the Horizon Browser Redirection extension.
  4. Install the Horizon Linux Agent required packages:
    Ubuntu and Debian sudo apt install libnss3-tools
    RHEL and Rocky sudo yum install nss-tools
    SLED and SLES sudo zypper install mozilla-nss-tools
  5. Edit the /etc/omnissa/config file to enable and configure Browser Content Redirection. html5mmr.bcr.enableBCR=true
  6. Set URL Whitelist: Define which URLs are allowed for Browser Content Redirection
    Example: html5mmr.bcr.urlWhiteList=https://www.google.com/*;https://*.*
  7. Reboot the Linux VM to apply the changes.

Limitations

The client machine’s network must be able to reach the specified URLs in the whitelist.

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